Shailesh Shankar possesses extensive experience in sales and engineering management within the geospatial technologies sector. Currently serving as the Head of Sales for South Asia at BlackSky, Shailesh has previously held key positions including Sales Engineering Manager at Maxar Technologies, Manager of Sales Engineering at DigitalGlobe, and Associate Consultant focusing on Geospatial Technologies at Tata Consultancy Services. Shailesh also has a background in solutions management with NIIT-GIS Ltd. (ESRI India). Academic foundations were laid at St. Joseph’s School in Pune.